See you again someday...

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while.  A lot has been going on lately so I haven't had a chance to jump on here and blog about how Wyatt and us are doing.  Recently Wyatt's great grandfather passed away.  A few months back, I was able to take the last picture taken of Gread Grandpa.  His service was just this past monday, June 4th. 

Wyatt with Great Grandma and Great Grandpa

The day Great Grandpa passed, I left work, picked Wyatt up and headed over to Great Grandma's and Grandpa's house.  It was a very sad day that day.  When we arrived, we just missed them taking Grandpa away.  GGrandpa had surgery just about 2 weeks before.  He was home a few days after his surgery and was chatting and alert.  GGrandpa got to see Wyatt roll over from his back to his tummy that day.  He also got to hear Wyatt giggle as I was tickling his tummy.  GGrandpa kept telling Wyatt how he was going to tell him all kinds of stories about his Grandpa (Wyatt's Grandpa).  He was also telling Wyatt how he was going to tell him how to get into things (get in trouble basically).  We all miss you GGrandpa.  But we're all glad that you're not suffering anymore.  I'm glad GGrandpa got to watch Wyatt grow and develop as a baby.  Even though it was only 6 months, He has grown a lot.  Size-wise and physically/mentally.  I remember bringing him over when he was just weeks old.  How tiny he was and how all he wanted to do was eat, sleep and poop.  Last Christmas, we were invited to spend Christmas day at Grandma's and also with GGrandma and GGrandpa.  I told daddy that I wanted to spend that Christmas with GGrandma and GGrandpa, just in case it might be the last Christmas.  And I'm glad we did.  Wyatt was just a few months old then.  And still the same.  He just ate, slept and pooped. 

While I was on maternity leave, we would try to visit GGrandma and GGrandpa as much as possible.  Some days it would be just me and Wyatt visiting when daddy was working.  The visits were always hours long because visits were always fun.  Even though GGrandpa was a stubborn old man, he had such a warm and caring heart.  It was always fun to hang out with him.  To joke with him and just be there.  If you knew Grandpa, you would know his wealthy knowledge of antiques.  He had this obsession with peddle cars!  I always saw a little blue peddle car toy behind the couch.  I asked daddy about it one day and that's when I found out GGrandpa had that obsession.  Oh!  And his squirrels!!!  He has a few wood containers in the backyard filled with peanuts for his squirrels.  He was always talking about them.  How their fur was, or how the squirrels would chase each other.  Or how one would be sun bathing.  He loved his squirrels.  He would spend $20 per week just on a bag of peanuts for his squirrels.  Even though I only knew GGrandpa for only 5 years, I feel like we've been family for years.  He really did make me feel like his family.  He was always telling me to keep daddy in line.

My most favorite memory of GGrandpa was when GGrandma was in the hospital for surgery (this was years before Wyatt was born).  A few years before then, my grandmother passed away and was in the hospital in ICU for a while before going to a care home and she was very close to me.  Anyways, we all went to visit GGrandma in the hospital to send her well wishes.  Since it was ICU, only 2 at a time were allowed in.  So Daddy and Uncle went in first.  While the rest (me, Grandpa, GGrandpa and Aunt) of us were waiting outside, I started thinking about my Grandmother (who I call Lola).  And it started to bring back memories of her and of how much I missed her and the feeling I felt when I was told she passed away and the feeling I felt at her funeral.  So I had all this sadness just hit me like a brick all at once while we were waiting to be next to see GGrandma.  I didn't want to just start crying in front of them.  So I snuck away quietly to start crying because I couldn't hold it in anymore.  A few minutes later, I saw GGrandpa who was looking for me.  He knew why I was crying.  He sat me down in the waiting room and comforted me.  GGrandpa had a big heart.

We love you GGrandpa... Don't have too much fun with my relatives.

Grabbing feet

Smell my feet Daddy!!!!

Yup, Wyatt is at that stage where his feet are VERY amusing to him.  He LOVES to grab his feet any chance he gets.  The other day he tried to stick his foot in his mouth.  I think it's too funny.  He also started trying to grab both feet.  In his carseat, where he is securely strapped in, he will lift his head and try to grab his feet.  I guess it's a good thing as it helps build his ab muscles to start sitting on his own.  In his swing, he's always grabbing for his feet.

Other than that, time has been going by way too fast.  He's almost 7 months old!!!!  I was telling some of my friends how it felt like I completely missed the newborn experience.  Most of them said they felt the same thing.  Daddy's step brother said to him, when we found out we were pregnant, he said "Don't Blink".  And that song by Kenny Chesney "Don't Blink" is so true!  It seems like life went by so fast.  If there were a way to slow time down, right now, I would take the chance!  and the song "You're gonna miss this" by Trace Adkins.  Even though it's only been almost 7 months, I already miss him being so tiny!  One day he's small and sleeping most of the time, the next, he's rolling around trying to stick his feet in his mouth.

Giggle Monster!!!!

Since yesteryday, Daddy and I have been moving stuff from our upstairs apartment to the downstairs apartment (too many problems with our upstairs apartment to list) with the help of some friends (thanks so much for the help friends!!!!  It was GREATLY appreciated.  Even just baby sitting Wyatt was a HUGE help!). Well yesterday, I had a hard time with trying to get Wyatt to take a nap.  He didn't really nap much yesterday.  He only had 1 30 minute nap.  I felt bad that I couldn't help with the moving.  But as soon as Wyatt was down for teh count (for his nap), I was all over trying to help.  Daddy was so tired from moving, that a friend of ours invited us over for dinner.  So we headed over there.  Our Friend's kid is so adorable.  He saw Wyatt and immediately became excited!  He was constantly giving Wyatt kisses and showing Wyatt all his toys that he had.  Daddy went swimming while I was watching Wyatt.  Wyatt was not all that happy yesterday.  His diaper rash didn't help all that much either.  I think it was the lack of naps (because of stuff going on) and his diaper rash that was kind of making him a bit fussy.

But today was a total 180 for him.  He actually took 2 one hour naps today and he was very talkative and very interactive.  In the afternoon, I was standing just a few feet away from Wyatt and every time he would look at me, he would start sqealing (yeah... oh no!) and laugh.  At least he was able to laugh inbetween diaper changes.  he still has a diaper rash :-( poor guy!  He was a very happy little boy today.  When I was putting stuff away in the kitchen, Wyatt was in his swing, daddy walked in and asked me to look at my son.  So when I looked, he was holding his little feet!  It was so cute!  He just looked up and smiled at me as he was holding his feet.

Yeah, he was happy today!!

First Mother's Day

Wyatt chewing/sucking on a wet nap. Mommy's way of wiping his face since he hates that!

Aww, look at my little guy!  We visited Great Grandma and Great Grandpa on Saturday since Great Grandpa was back home.  Yay!!!  We spent quite a few hours entertaining everyone.  I was telling them how Wyatt has been teasing me with him rolling.  They have already seen him roll from tummy to back numerous times.  The last time they saw him, that's all he was doing.  And that was a month ago!  So, from my previous post, I mentioned how Wyatt has been rolling over from his back to his tummy and daddy was the only one who witnessed it (over and over and over again, and happily gloating about it too!).  Well, everytime I'm with Wyatt, He has been pretty much teasing me!  I've caught him TWICE on his tummy when I was gone for just a few minutes!  I just didn't see how he got there...  Everytime he's on his back, he would roll to his side with his lower half rolled, but his upper half not.  And he would roll onto his back, look at me and smile with this "Hi mommy, I know how to roll over, but I'm goign to teas you anyway."

But, when we were at Great Grandma's and Great Grandpa's, he rolled over TWICE!!!!  And I got to actually watch it taht time!  The first time I saw him, no one else was looking.  They were laughing at how he knew exactly when to roll over...  When no one was looking!.  Then the second time, we all witnessed him roll over!  He enjoyed the praise we gave him.  Such a silly silly little boy!

Oh (and onto my main topic of this post), Sunday, May 13th was my first official Mother's Day!  Really nothing exciting actually.  With me back at work and playing catch up with our finances, we didn't have any means to do anything. 

I do have another confession to make...  I stopped taking my anti-depressants for about a week because I ran out and I didn't have time to go get them.  It (well still is) took a toll on me emotionally... BIG TIME.  The day before mother's day, I was almost in tears and I just couldn't figure out why.  I was so depressed and I knew that it was because I wasn't taking my meds.  So mom's out there, those who are taking anti-depressants, please don't skimp out on your meds no matter how happy you feel.  Don't skimp out on them until you are given the OK from your doc!  I don't like that feeling, and I don't want to go down that road again.

Anywho, with me fighting the depression and having my first mother's day of doing nothing, it was a huge emotinal drain on me.  I wanted to go out and do something, but at the same time, I didn't.  I couldn't make up my mom and just gave in and said we'll just stay at home.  We watched a few redbox rentals and just hung out at home and played with Wyatt.  Then Daddy took off to hang out with a friend of his for a few hours.  Wyatt and I hung out, napped a little, played.  You know, the usual mommy and son thing :-)  It was a lot of fun!  When daddy was home, I don't remember what happened, but I do remember that Wyatt and I took a bath together.  I loved it.  And Wyatt loved it more than him just being in his own bath tub.  I think it was because he was close to mommy and he got to play with water.  I washed him from head to toe and asked daddy to get him and get him into his PJs.  Then I finished my shower and  got myself into my PJ's.

When i walked into the living room, I saw this:

Wyatt in his High Chair with a card and box of chocolate for mommy!

Wyatt, Mr. T and daddy had a mother's day card and box of chocolate for me.  I started tearing up but held it in as best i could when I saw it.  When I started reading the card, I really started crying (not hysterically, just was dropping some tears I couldn't hide).  The rest of the night was nice.  I nursed Wyatt to bed, let my hair dry a little more, put it in curls and went to bed.  Even though we didn't do anything and I was kind of bummed we didn't realy celebrate mother's day, it ended really well and I wouldn't trade it for anythign in the world.  I love my little family.

Oh and that pink stick Wyatt is holding is one of my hair foam roller thingys (i really forgot what they were called) that daddy handed to him as a "drum stick"...  Oh boy.....

6 month milestone AND....

Officially reached the SILVER BOOB AWARD!

I know I posted a few weeks about the silver boob award, but I was so excited about being able to breastfeed Wyatt a total of (now) 6 months!  My recent post about Wyatt eating solid foods, well I did take a picture yesterday!  Well, quite a few actually.  I made sweet potato for this week for him to try and I've been sending it off to daycare.  I unfortunately (but fortunately) was home Tues. through Thurs. because I was sick and Wyatt had a Doc appt. on Thurs.  On tuesday He didn't have any solid food as I nursed him as much as I could because of the fact that I wanted him to have my antibodies my body was producing.  He doesn';t have my cold.  He has the sniffles, but that was before I got sick.  Anyway, I did feed him some sweet potato on Thursday though.  I think he's gotten used to how he's being fed with a spoon!  After a few spoon tries (I was feeding him the sweet potato with his spoon), he started reaching out for his spoon.  At first I would try to distract his hand someplace else, but he just did not want to.  Then next thing I know, he grabs the spoon!

And he decides to feed himself.  Of course, him being only 6 months old, it was more on his face than in his mouth!!!!  But he was enjoying so much of it.  Actually he was enjoying it so much that he threw a fit if I would try to take his spoon away from him! 

Later that day we went to his well checkup doctors appointment.  He now weights 17lbs 0.6oz and 26 1/4" long!  So he gained about a pund in 2 months and grew almost 2".  His doc was asking me if he started solids.  I told him he started a few weeks ago.  And when I mentioned that Wyatt took the spoon from me and started feeding himself, he was erally surprised.  He was saying that babies don't quite learn how to do that until they're almost a year.  And then he called Wyatt a genius!  After he was checking Wyatt, he picked him up and had this surprised look on his face that Wyatt was quiet.  Then he said to Wyatt "Ok, now is mommy giving you cheetos?" haha!  I LOVE Wyatt's Ped.  It helps out a lot that he was also daddy's ped too.

OH, FYI, his shirt says "Lock up your daughters" for those wondering :-)

Yummy in the Tummy

Sorry, I don't have a photo of Wyatt having his first "solids".  But here's a cute picture of him anyways!

 This is how Wyatt self soothes

Wyatt has been eating solids for about 2 weeks now.  He was on and off with solids since 4 months (mostly off).  But since daycare, I haven't been able to pump the amount he eats that I send to daycare.  So I had him start on solids.  I also gave Maggie (daycare lady) the ok to give him formula if he was still hungry and was not taking the solids.

So Wyatt has been eating solids for a few weeks now.  The first week I gave the OK, I think he had the usual baby food jar.  The second week, I sent puree'd apple and put the baby bullet to use.  This week I sent sweet potato!  I knew he liked the apple, not sure if he liked the sweet potato since I haven't experienced him experiencing it.  He did like the apple a lot though!  He ate a lot of it, i think about an ounce of it.   I made airplane noises as the spoon was heading towards his mouth and he just laughed and opened wide.  Then silly mommy would say "mmmm... nom nom nom nom nom!" and he would just giggle away! 

I LOVE it :-)

Roll over!

For about 2 weeks, apparently Wyatt has been rolling over from his back to his tummy.  Last weekend, when Greg said that Wyatt's been doing that for a week now, I was surprised.  he thought I knew about it.  So all weekend last week, I kept a good close eye on Wyatt to see if he'll roll over.  I swear it seemed like he was teasing me!  He would have half of his body rolled.  He would kick his legs over, but he wouldn't turn his upper body to follow.  He would just arch his back and stare at me with a smile.  It was almost like as if he was saying "yeah mom, I know how to roll over..."

Wyatt now sleeps on his side.  He seems more comfortable that way.  It's so cute!!!!

Anyway, So I had Wyatt on his gym mat earlier today drinking his milk with his sippy cup.  I went into our closet to get something and as soon as I walked in the living room (where he was) he was on his tummy!  He looked at me with this "hey, what's up mommy!"  I just laughed and asked him why he didn't wait for mommy to watch him.  Oh, what a cutie!

I was gone for only a few seconds!